Mumbai: Key indices Sensex and Nifty managed to close higher for the third straight session today, led by realty, metal and power stocks.

The gains though were moderate.

The 30-share Sensex resumed higher, but soon slipped on profit-taking, before settling up 17.10 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 33,359.90.

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said today that Aadhaar data is completely safe and secure.

Aadhaar number, it said, is not a secret number and it is to be shared with authorised agencies if one wishes to avail a certain service or benefit of government welfare schemes or other services.

Kolkata: Bhuvneshwar Kumar took four quick wickets to give Sri Lanka a scare but the visitors held on to draw the first Test against India on Monday’s final day.

Chasing 231, Sri Lanka finished on 75-7 when bad light stopped play in the final session of the game in Kolkata. Rangana Herath and Dasun Shanaka played

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today permitted Karti Chidambaram, son of Congress leader P Chidambaram, to visit the United Kingdom from December 1-10 for his daughter’s admission in the Cambridge university there.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked Ka

Hyderabad: As many as forty houses in Ambedkar Nagar slums in Hyderabad were demolished by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Monday morning to make way for construction of new houses under the government’s 2BHK scheme.

According to the residents, after 250 houses in their neighbourhood were razed

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board on Monday filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking settlement of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.

“We have filed an application in the apex court seeking settlement of the dispute. Shia Waqf Board and Hindu groups are at the same platform now. Now,

London: A defiant Vijay Mallya today appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London for his pre-trial hearing where the liquor baron’s extradition hearing was confirmed for eight days starting December 4.

The 61-year-old businessman, out on bail on an extradition warrant executed by Scotland Yard earl

The Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill 2017 has been passed by the state assembly on November 16th.

The initial draft of the bill was prepared by experts at the National Law School University, Bengaluru. Later, an expert committee formed by the government made the first form of the bill

Panaji: Actor Shahid Kapoor today said rather than being angry, he chooses to be optimistic about the future of “Padmavati”, whose release has been postponed amid protests by various Rajput groups and political leaders.

Shahid is one of the guests from Bollywood to attend the inaugural ceremony of the Inter

Barcelona: Police in Spain shot and injured an unarmed Frenchman on Saturday at a toll station near the French border, who officers said was shouting ‘Allahu akbar’.

The officers mistakenly suspected he had a weapon, a police statement said, adding that they do not expect to open a terrorism investigat